The first panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Big Picture, with an overview on foreign policy, labour and women’s perspectives. This is the exchange on the perspective of global labour.
When National bent over backwards for Peter Jackson by handing over millions in corporate welfare to corporate Hollywood and changed our employment law, Labour screamed it was ‘crony capitalism’.
…that’s right folks, Dairy doesn’t shit into our rivers or steal our water! They didn’t get National to privatise 49% of our state owned energy assets to create an irrigation slush fund worth $400million to convert as many square inches of NZ into intensified dairy farms! No, they create a miracle juice that helps the sick and needy while keeping our rivers clean.
If this is the fourth estate holding power to account, power is having a field day.
The role the PSA and CTU have played in quietly supporting the creation of a scab union to undermine the Jnr Doctors has been well canvassed by Bryce Edwards and Chris Trotter, but you would have thought after such stinging criticism the PSA and CTU would acknowledge their tactics to undermine workers was wrong and lend their support.
Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says the ultimatum by West Coast Regional Council to see evidence human pollution is causing climate change before they reduce emissions is a shameful ignorance.
Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says the current heatwave that burnt Australia and is currently suffocating New Zealand is a grim view of our climate change future.
…if a region who will be hit hardest by climate change denies that climate change, they should be left to drown. This is darwinism and evolution now, something the West Coast Regional Council probably doesn’t believe in.
The one reason why this new political vehicle is being sounded out is because powerful lobbyists behind National are desperate to establish one drawing on anti-1080 fanatics and commercial fishing interests. There was a recent ‘lunch’ with a high ranking National MP and a large corporate fishing identity that pledged $1million towards this project.
One lesson to be learned from this incident…